| | Breech: | | Backwards, upside down and all fucked up | | by Sandee Rager | | more bling bling than the Milky Way |
 | | Download BREECH MP3 files here | | Just click the links to listen. Option-Click to download with Macintosh browsers or Right-Click to download with Windows browsers • "Holiday" - 4.7mb • "Thistle" - 3.5 mb | | | | Watch a BREECH music video! | | By special engagement, we are happy to present the video to "Awful Spill." Carson daily eat your heart out. Watch it here - 4.2mb |
| "Backwards and upside down and all fucked up," Gibson chuckled about the birth of her baby, the band Breech.  "Breech, an LA based band consistst of Missy Gibson, Mike Flanagan, Joe McAlevey, Dan Hughes, Hal Cope.
The Band started in 1992 when Gibson met Thomas Trimble in a theater class in Michigan. She was involved in a band called Strange Bedfellows and he was in the band Weeping Rachel. Both bands played together quite often and began to really appreciate each other. They decided to start writing songs together and out of this collaboration came Breech. But time took its toll on the original Breech, members left and after four years, Gibson decided to break things off. Since Breech had been flirting with some record labels out in California, she made her way out there to start anew.  Now was the start of a new day for Breech.
Gibson, started playing and singing at open mic nights in LA when she met McAlevey. He was running an open mic where she strummed her cords. Flanagan had worked in Detroit with musician Frank Pohl in the past, met Gibson at one time and joined Breech. A beat short of a drummer, they put an ad in the newspaper and that's when Hughes came into the picture. Cope and Gibson had met before her move to LA. While doing a show, he showed up at a gig and timing couldn't be better; their bassist had just quit, so he was there to step in. She hadn't seen him in a few years and his move to Southern California reacquainted them. Cope just recently parted ways with the previous band he was with, Coletrain Wreck. Breech's musical chemistry is a good brew and it shows in the polished, soulful sound of their music. They don't all share the same music pallet, which is good and bad at the same time. Even as diverse as everyone's interests are, they have learned to feed off of each other's muses. "When I don't feel like this song is done, the others pick up on it and go with it," Gibson said. "And that in itself is tasty."  Two of the biggest helping on Breech's plate are their recent song on the TV show Dawson's Creek and the enormous success of their bake sales. The Dawson's Creek track materialized when, Gibson went to a party time with a friend who knew Barb XXXX, the executive music supervisor of the show. This friend had already been talking up the band to Barb and wanted the two to meet. Upon meeting, Gibson mentioned wanting to make a little extra money and that she liked to paint.
Barb suggested that Gibson could paint her house for the extra cash, but also asked for a Breech demo tape. As fate would have it, Barb liked the sound of the band and put the song 'Thistle' in the soundtrack of a Dawson's Creek season finale. Suddenly, Breech was in the bigtime, with thistle as their most recognizable track (You can listen to it in one of the above links). But like many bands with their first successful track, the threat of "one-hit-wonder" loomed. Gibson mentioned the frustration at shows now when the audience chants, "Dawson Creek song". Was there no other reason for people to talk about Breech than "Thistle?" For a while, it seemed that way. But then Betty Rocker was born.  In order to pay for their latest album, Breech cooked up the idea of holding bake sales. Each member in Breech likes to bake, each with their own specialty. Puttingthat talent to work, they would spend hours at a time baking tasty treats and then setting up shop outside of concert venues in the city. At first, people thought it was a bizzare joke.
"'Are they for real?'" Gibson said people would say. "'What the fuck is going on?'" But, after yummies were consumed by such nay-sayers and even some celebrities, it wasn't long until that became a trademark for them "Meeting famous people is always cool," Gibson said. One encounter in particular was when Breech set up shop outside an Iggy Pop concert. When Pop came outside to see what was going on, they had a special muffin made just for him. He thought the whole idea was cool and actually started calling out to people on the street like a celebrity carny barker. Now, the bake sales fund Breech with notoriety as well as hard cash, becoming part of their identity. Somewhere down the line, the media began referring to Gibson as "Betty Rocker". Breech is even talking about putting together a cookbook. But despite the hype, the music remains their priority. With as blended as Breech's sound and the chemistry of its members are, they are as individual as the instruments they play. If each member could be an instrument, Gibson went on to say they are as much as the one's they play. Like the accordion, McAlevey is "so melancholy and extraordinary". He plays the keyboard for the band as well. Hughes, drums, is extreme and moody, "what you see on the outside is tough, but soft on the inside. "Flanagan plays guitar and clarinet. Gibson said he's more like a clarinet than a guitar; "needs to be heard and expressed, but not as obvious as a guitar. He sets the tone like a clarinet does." Cope, who plays bass, is the "voice of reason." Gibson chuckled. "Hmmm, he's the underbelly, he's kinda the glue." She added, "a total smart-ass, but in a good way." And what of herself? "I'm like a really out of tune violin," she said and laughed. "I'm as whiney as a person and a singer can get." As quick as a breath, her tone changed to a lower vulnerability, "I'm a little disheveled, a little undone and that seems to be ok." Breech is setting a blaze out in LA and heating things up elsewhere. Gibson is very grateful for what she has done and what is in front of here. "I feel really blessed," she said. "You kinda create your own circle and happiness." Each member hold a part-time or full-time job as well as working on Breech. They travel as much as they can in the LA area. They'd like to spend more time in the Midwest (yea hometown!) and the East Coast. They were with Label Conspiracy record company at one time, but are now in re-negotiations and have been for three months. Enthusiasm in the band is high and it seems that they are on the way up. To sum it up, the best thing about Breech to Gibson is, "We CARE! We have cool bake sales and chicks dig us." You can learn more about Breech at www.breech.net | 
| Sandee Rager is not entirely sure how she feels about male MarsDust staffers staring her butt all the time. It's certainly unprofessional of us but we just can't help ourselves. If you wanna write her, just send an e-mail to the address below: rager@marsdust.20m.com | | 
